Season 4 - Episode 12: We Can’t Be Arsed Thinking of Something

Blender LTS • Microsoft mis-steps • Linux market share • PineTab ready to go • Lenovo for Linux • You should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky…

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May contain mature references

Chitchat

Mike: Having a go at Godot ⌨🕹
Shane: Pop!_OS hard drive 💽💽 woes continue. Probably not their fault though as it seems to be related to an upstream systemd issue.

News

🖌🎦 Blender 2.83 is the first longterm support release from the project with many new great features.

Microsoft’s recent “mis-steps” 🥾🥾 in open source:

🥡 Winget Appget grab (via The Verge)

Maui 📛🔥 name clash (via Phoronix)

Linux market share moved 📈 up (via omg! ubuntu!)

Roaming within the EU 🇪🇺📲

PineTab is 📦 ready for order (via omg! ubuntu!)

Lenovo ThinkPads 💻 and ThinkStations 🖥 to be certified for 🐧 Linux

Events

FOSS Talk Live is not happening but there might be a Mumble get-together on 🎙🍺🍺 the same day, as Joe hinted on Twitter

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.